Epson Apex, User Manual

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5. You can enter the correct date or leave it unchanged by
pressing
Enter.
For now, press
Enter
to leave the date
unchanged.
6. After accepting the date, MS-DOS displays the time
prompt:
Current time is hh:mm:ss
Enter new time:
You can enter the correct time or bypass the prompt by
pressing
Enter.
For now, press
Enter
to bypass the prompt.
The system now displays the MS-DOS command prompt,
A>,
which is your starting point for putting MS-DOS to
work.
The command prompt
The command prompt tells you that MS-DOS is loaded and
your computer is ready to receive instructions. The command
prompt also identifies the current operating drive: A, B, or C.
It displays on the screen when you load MS-DOS, complete an
MS-DOS command, or return to MS-DOS from an application
program. If your current operating drive is A, it looks like this:
A>
On the Apex Plus system, the top drive is drive A and the
bottom drive is drive B. On the Apex Plus 20 system, the
diskette drive is drive A and the hard disk drive is drive C.
MS-DOS reserves the label B for a second diskette drive,
whether or not it is installed.
If you are using an Apex Plus 20 and you booted from the hard
disk; you’ll notice that your prompt is not the MS-DOS default
command prompt
c>.
Instead, your prompt looks like this:
c:\ >
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